Acting · Tacoma, Washington, USA · Born May 3, 1903
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music. Crosby won an Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of St. Mary's opposite Ingrid Bergman the next year, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with longtime friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to... films from 1940 to 1962. Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to America by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build copies. He then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
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MovieI Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
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MovieCarol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
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MovieGrace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
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MovieLouis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
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MovieRat Pack
2022
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MovieDean Martin: King of Cool
2021
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MovieMy Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
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MovieHoward
2018
as Jeff Peters (archive footage)
MovieThis Is Bob Hope...
2017
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MovieBing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014
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MovieMichael Bublé: Home For The Holidays
2012
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MovieBing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
2010
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Best of Johnny Carson
2010
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MovieTim Conway: Timeless Comedy
2007
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TVLegends
2006
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Movie"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After
2006
as Self - (archive footage)
MovieGrace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
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Legendary Christmas Entertainers
2005
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Movie'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
2004
as Self
MovieBing Crosby: Legends in Concert
2004
as Self
Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
2003
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MovieBiography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
2003
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MovieHollywood Ghosts & Gravesites
2003
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MovieWalt Disney's Fables - Vol.1
2003
as Narrator / Ichabod Crane / Brom Bones (voice) (archive footage)
MovieEdith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
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Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001
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MovieThe Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
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MovieThe Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
2001
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Movie'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
2000
as Bob Wallace (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieHollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
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Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
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MovieClassic Commercials: Volume 3
1998
MovieA Bing Crosby Christmas
1998
as Self - Host (archive footage)
MovieChristmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
1997
as Bob Wallace (archive footage)
MovieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThat's Entertainment! III
1994
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MovieShanks for the Memory
1994
MovieSongs That Won the War
1994
as Himself (Archive)
Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
1992
as Self - Vocalist (archive footage)
MovieA Classic Christmas from The Ed Sullivan Show
1992
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MovieThe Magic of Bing Crosby
1991
as Self (archive footage)
MovieYou're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
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MovieHappy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieGrace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
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MovieClassic Comedy Teams
1986
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MovieHollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985
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MovieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
1984
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MovieShowbiz Goes to War
1982
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MovieDisney's Halloween Treat
1982
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MovieShowbiz Ballyhoo
1982
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MovieOops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
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MovieThe Hollywood Clowns
1979
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MovieBing Crosby: The Christmas Years
1978
as Himself (archival footage)
MovieBing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
1977
as Self
MovieHalloween Hall o' Fame
1977
as Narrator/Brom Bones
MovieBing Crosby: Live In Mysen, Norway
1977
as Himself
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976
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MovieIt's Showtime
1976
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHooray for Hollywood
1976
as Self (archive footage)
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
1975
as Self
MovieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
TVDinah!
1974
as Self
MovieThat's Entertainment!
1974
as Self - Host / Narrator
MovieBing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
MovieCancel My Reservation
1972
as Himself (uncredited)
MovieHollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas
1971
as Himself
The Great Radio Comedians
1971
as Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
as Self
MovieDr. Cook's Garden
1971
as Leonard Cook
MovieBing Crosby: Cooling It
1970
as Self
MovieGoldilocks
1970
as Self / Papa Bear (voice)
MovieSwing Out, Sweet Land
1970
as Mark Twain
TVThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
MovieThe Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self (uncredited)
MovieThe Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
TVThe Carol Burnett Show
1967
as Self
TVThe Danny Thomas Hour
1967
as Charlie Castle
MovieChristmas with Crosby & Kate
1966
as Himself
MovieStagecoach
1966
as Doc Josiah Boone
MovieCinerama's Russian Adventure
1966
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBing Crosby Color Christmas Show
1965
as Self (host)
Bob Hope Christmas Show
1965
as Self
TVThe Bing Crosby Show
1964
as Bing Collins
MovieRobin and the 7 Hoods
1964
as Allen A. Dale
TVTop of the Pops
1964
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Sound of Laughter
1963
as Bob (Singer in Grocery Store)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as George Warren
MovieThe Bing Crosby Show
1962
as Himself
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
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MovieThe Road to Hong Kong
1962
as Harry Turner
MovieThe Bing Crosby Show
1961
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
MovieBig Night Out: The Peggy Lee Show
1961
MovieThe Grand Olympics
1961
as Himself
MoviePepe
1960
as Bing Crosby
MovieHigh Time
1960
as Harvey Howard
MovieLet's Make Love
1960
as Bing Crosby (uncredited)
MovieLifetime of Comedy
1960
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959
as Self
MovieSay One for Me
1959
as Father Conroy
MovieAlias Jesse James
1959
as Bing (uncredited)
TVThe Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self
MovieThe All-Star Christmas Show
1958
as Self
MovieHappy Holidays with Bing and Frank
1957
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TVFrank Sinatra Show
1957
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MovieThe Edsel Show
1957
as Self
MovieMan on Fire
1957
as Earl Carleton
MovieHigh Society
1956
as C. K. Dexter-Haven
MovieAnything Goes
1956
as Bill Benson
MovieHigh Tor
1956
as Van Van Dorn
MovieShowdown at Ulcer Gulch
1956
as Influential Man
TVThe Phil Silvers Show
1955
as Bing Crosby
MovieThe Country Girl
1954
as Frank Elgin
MovieWhite Christmas
1954
as Bob Wallace
MovieThe Bing Crosby Show
1954
as Self
MovieLittle Boy Lost
1953
as Bill Wainright
MovieScared Stiff
1953
as Skeleton (uncredited)
MovieOff Limits
1952
as Bing Crosby (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieRoad to Bali
1952
as George Cochran
MovieJust for You
1952
as Jordan Blake
MovieSon of Paleface
1952
as Driver (uncredited)
MovieThe Greatest Show on Earth
1952
as Spectator (uncredited)
MovieAngels in the Outfield
1951
as Bing Crosby (uncredited)
TVThe Red Skelton Show
1951
as Self
MovieHere Comes the Groom
1951
as Peter 'Pete' Garvey
MovieAmerica Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
1951
MovieMr. Music
1950
as Paul Merrick
TVThe Jack Benny Program
1950
as Bing Crosby
Screen Actors
1950
as Self (uncredited)
MovieRiding High
1950
as Dan Brooks
TVThe Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
MovieYou Can Change The World
1950
as Self
MovieThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949
as Narrator
MovieThe Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949
as Narrator (segment "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
MovieTop o' the Morning
1949
as Joe Mulqueen
MovieJolson Sings Again
1949
as Himself (voice) (uncredited)
MovieDown Memory Lane
1949
as Bing Crosby
MovieA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
as Hank Martin
MovieThe Emperor Waltz
1948
as Virgil Smith
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieRoad to Rio
1947
as Scat Sweeney
MovieVariety Girl
1947
as Bing Crosby
MovieRoad to Hollywood
1947
as Himself
MovieWelcome Stranger
1947
as Dr. James 'Jim' Pearson
MovieMy Favorite Brunette
1947
as Harry (uncredited)
MovieBlue Skies
1946
as Johnny Adams
MovieRoad to Utopia
1946
as Duke Johnson
MovieThe Bells of St. Mary's
1945
as Father O'Malley
We've Got Another Bond to Buy
1945
MovieHollywood Victory Caravan
1945
as Bing Crosby
MovieDuffy's Tavern
1945
as Bing Crosby
MovieOut of This World
1945
as Herbie Fenton (singing voice) (uncredited)
Road to Home
1945
as Self
MovieThe All-Star Bond Rally
1945
as Self
MovieHere Come the Waves
1944
as Johnny Cabot
MovieThe Princess and the Pirate
1944
as Margaret's Sweetheart (uncredited)
The Road to Victory
1944
as Bing Crosby (uncredited)
MovieThe Shining Future
1944
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Winner
MovieGoing My Way
1944
as Father Chuck O'Malley
MovieDixie
1943
as Daniel Decatur Emmett
MovieShow-Business at War
1943
as Self
Don't Hook Now
1943
as Self
MovieThey Got Me Covered
1943
as Music Box (voice)
MovieRoad to Morocco
1942
as Jeff Peters
MovieHoliday Inn
1942
as Jim Hardy
MovieMy Favorite Blonde
1942
as Man Outside Union Hall (uncredited)
MovieStar Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Bing Crosby
MovieBirth of the Blues
1941
as Jeff Lambert
MovieRoad to Zanzibar
1941
as Chuck
MovieRhythm on the River
1940
as Bob Sommers
Swing with Bing
1940
as Himself
MovieIf I Had My Way
1940
as Buzz Blackwell
MovieRoad to Singapore
1940
as Josh Mallon
MovieThe Star Maker
1939
as Larry Earl
MovieEast Side of Heaven
1939
as Denny Martin
MovieParis Honeymoon
1939
as 'Lucky' Lawton
MovieSing, You Sinners
1938
as Joe Beebe
MovieHollywood Handicap
1938
as Himself
MovieDoctor Rhythm
1938
as Dr. Bill Remsen
MovieDouble or Nothing
1937
as 'Lefty' Boylan
MovieWaikiki Wedding
1937
as Tony Marvin
MoviePennies from Heaven
1936
as Larry Poole
MovieRhythm on the Range
1936
as Jeff Larabee
MovieAnything Goes
1936
as Billy Crocker
MovieThe Big Broadcast of 1936
1935
as Bing
MovieTwo for Tonight
1935
as Gilbert Gordon
MovieMississippi
1935
as Tom Grayson
MovieHere Is My Heart
1934
as J. Paul Jones
MovieStar Night at the Cocoanut Grove
1934
as Self
MovieShe Loves Me Not
1934
as Paul Lawton
MovieWe're Not Dressing
1934
as Stephen Jones
MovieHollywood on Parade No. B-4
1934
as Self
MovieGoing Hollywood
1933
as Bill 'Billy' Williams
MoviePlease
1933
as Howard Jones
MovieToo Much Harmony
1933
as Eddie Bronson
MovieCollege Humor
1933
as Professor Frederick Danvers
MovieSing, Bing, Sing
1933
as Bing
MovieThe Big Broadcast
1932
as Bing Hornsby
MovieHollywood on Parade No. A-2
1932
as Self
MovieHollywood on Parade
1932
as Self
MovieHollywood on Parade No. A-4
1932
as Self (uncredited)
MovieBillboard Girl
1932
as Bing
Dream House
1932
as Bing Fawcett (Plumber)
MovieOne More Chance
1931
as Bing Bangs
MovieBlue of the Night
1931
as Bing Crosby / Jack Smith
MovieI Surrender Dear
1931
as Bing Crosby
MovieConfessions of a Co-Ed
1931
as Bing
MovieReaching for the Moon
1930
as Bing
MovieThe March of Time
1930
as Self
MovieTwo Plus Fours
1930
as Bing
MovieKing of Jazz
1930
as Trio Singer (as The Rhythm Boys)
